Sunday, 22 November 2015

23.11.15
The Columbia Grain Elevator stands partially demolished in October, 1972. Revealed as a vertical shed. Note inlet and the mountain backdrop. This slide we read has been kept in frozen storage conditions. (CVA)

Rusted and digital the road has given way to greening. Monumental now the structure serves aptly as a place to revisit.

22.11.15
Mr. Higgins and companion sit in view for historical reasons. Somewhere on Lasqueti Island the sun in the decade of the 1920's was pleasing. She is at least half his age, kneeling no seat. Tongue and groove decking, dog sweats tongue. (VPL)

Decades pass only now this shed is clad in yellow cedar reverse board and batten. No tongue only groove as gestured and pointed.

Saturday, 14 November 2015

14.11.15
Gutted the shell stands exposed to static upgrading. Crenellations to be retained while mullions crumble and make way for double glazing. Kitsilano High School is one of the few to be spared in part.

They Write to Us of Vancouver

We still haven't been to Canada! ...Perhaps in the not too distant future? My behaviour is no longer just enigmatic, it terrorizes, and I cannot be reproached a single gesture, an illicit word. On the contrary, my conduct is exemplary, completely disorienting...